guernsey literary and potato peel pie society

so this weekend i manage to read my two new books, the first one is One Day by David Nicholls and the second one is Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. the first book, when i read the first and second chapter, i was hoping to read something interesting, but in the end it was another chicklit stuff. the standard story of the bad boy meet the idealistic girl, she falls in love but the boy keep toying with another girl, and in the end when finally he realized it, she's gone. nothing new. the character somehow lack of it.


the second book was worth every penny and times that i spent on reading it. composed as letters sent by and to a writer named Juliet Ashton, the book tell the story about the war times in one of Channel Island's Guernsey. with its British charm, it's refreshingly witty and funny, although there's sad part that always comes to remind me that this is a story with wartime as a background. this book pay a homage on kindness and humor as human's strength, one of the tools of survival, especially in wartime. beautifully written by the late mary ann shaffer and then continued by her niece annie barrows, this book is engaging and beautiful. and it made me google about the strange name of Oscar Wilde.